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Integrating front-end speech enhancement (SE) models with self-supervised learning (SSL)-based speech models is effective for downstream tasks in noisy conditions. SE models are commonly fine-tuned using SSL representations with mean…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Amit Meghanani , Thomas Hain

Far-field speech processing is an important and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose \textit{deep ad-hoc beamforming}, a deep-learning-based multichannel speech enhancement framework based on ad-hoc microphone arrays, to address…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Xiao-Lei Zhang

We introduce a real-time, multichannel speech enhancement algorithm which maintains the spatial cues of stereo recordings including two speech sources. Recognizing that each source has unique spatial information, our method utilizes a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Masahito Togami , Jean-Marc Valin , Karim Helwani , Ritwik Giri , Umut Isik , Michael M. Goodwin

Loudspeaker-based spatial audio reproduction schemes are increasingly used for evaluating hearing aids in complex acoustic conditions. To further establish the feasibility of this approach, this study investigated the interaction between…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Giso Grimm , Stephan Ewert , Volker Hohmann

In this paper, we analyzed how audio-visual speech enhancement can help to perform the ASR task in a cocktail party scenario. Therefore we considered two simple end-to-end LSTM-based models that perform single-channel audio-visual speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Luca Pasa , Giovanni Morrone , Leonardo Badino

The presence of multiple talkers in the surrounding environment poses a difficult challenge for real-time speech communication systems considering the constraints on network size and complexity. In this paper, we present Personalized…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Ritwik Giri , Shrikant Venkataramani , Jean-Marc Valin , Umut Isik , Arvindh Krishnaswamy

In this paper we address speaker-independent multichannel speech enhancement in unknown noisy environments. Our work is based on a well-established multichannel local Gaussian modeling framework. We propose to use a neural network for…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Simon Leglaive , Laurent Girin , Radu Horaud

Speech enhancement (SE) aims to reduce noise in speech signals. Most SE techniques focus only on addressing audio information. In this work, inspired by multimodal learning, which utilizes data from different modalities, and the recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Jen-Cheng Hou , Syu-Siang Wang , Ying-Hui Lai , Yu Tsao , Hsiu-Wen Chang , Hsin-Min Wang

Speech enhancement (SE) aims to reduce noise in speech signals. Most SE techniques focus only on addressing audio information. In this work, inspired by multimodal learning, which utilizes data from different modalities, and the recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Jen-Cheng Hou , Syu-Siang Wang , Ying-Hui Lai , Yu Tsao , Hsiu-Wen Chang , Hsin-Min Wang

The path-specific effect (PSE) is of primary interest in mediation analysis when multiple intermediate variables between treatment and outcome are observed, as it can isolate the specific effect through each mediator, thus mitigating…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-16 Jiawei Shan , Ting Wang , Wei Li , Chunrong Ai

In speech processing pipelines, improving the quality and intelligibility of real-world recordings is crucial. While supervised regression is the primary method for speech enhancement, audio tokenization is emerging as a promising…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Luca Della Libera , Cem Subakan , Mirco Ravanelli

Speech enhancement significantly improves the clarity and intelligibility of speech in noisy environments, improving communication and listening experiences. In this paper, we introduce a novel pretraining feature-guided diffusion model…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yiyuan Yang , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

The performance of traditional linear spatial filters for speech enhancement is constrained by the physical size and number of channels of microphone arrays. For instance, for large microphone distances and high frequencies, spatial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Alina Mannanova , Jakob Kienegger , Timo Gerkmann

Usually, hearing impaired people use hearing aids which are implemented with speech enhancement algorithms. Estimation of speech and estimation of nose are the components in single channel speech enhancement system. The main objective of…

Sound · Computer Science 2014-11-10 M. Ravichandra Kumar , B. Ravi Teja

For enhancing noisy signals, machine-learning based single-channel speech enhancement schemes exploit prior knowledge about typical speech spectral structures. To ensure a good generalization and to meet requirements in terms of…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Robert Rehr , Timo Gerkmann

We propose Uni-ArrayDPS, a novel diffusion-based refinement framework for unified multi-channel speech enhancement and separation. Existing methods for multi-channel speech enhancement/separation are mostly discriminative and are highly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Zhongweiyang Xu , Ashutosh Pandey , Juan Azcarreta , Zhaoheng Ni , Sanjeel Parekh , Buye Xu , Romit Roy Choudhury

We introduce AnyEnhance, a unified generative model for voice enhancement that processes both speech and singing voices. Based on a masked generative model, AnyEnhance is capable of handling both speech and singing voices, supporting a wide…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Junan Zhang , Jing Yang , Zihao Fang , Yuancheng Wang , Zehua Zhang , Zhuo Wang , Fan Fan , Zhizheng Wu

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) in multichannel, multi-speaker scenarios remains challenging due to ambient noise, reverberation and overlapping speakers. In this paper, we propose a beamforming approach that processes specific angular…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Can Cui , Paul Magron , Mostafa Sadeghi , Emmanuel Vincent

Diffusion models are a new class of generative models that have shown outstanding performance in image generation literature. As a consequence, studies have attempted to apply diffusion models to other tasks, such as speech enhancement. A…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Philippe Gonzalez , Zheng-Hua Tan , Jan Østergaard , Jesper Jensen , Tommy Sonne Alstrøm , Tobias May

Acoustical mismatch among training and testing phases degrades outstandingly speech recognition results. This problem has limited the development of real-world nonspecific applications, as testing conditions are highly variant or even…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-05-13 Rashmi Makhijani , Urmila Shrawankar , V M Thakare